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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-18

RICHMOND. Va. July lS-The barge Liz
zie Wallace has arrived at the Richmond q
Danville Railroad cumpanvs docks with 200
tons of old iron. consigned TO the Old Do
miniou Iron and Nail works. This iron is
what may I've called the remains of the Con-
federate gunloat Virginia, formerly the
United States ship Merrmac, which enccun-
tered the Monitor in Hampton Roads during
the late war causing one of the most noted
naval engagements of MODERN times. The
Monitor was disabled ami baulel oil, and the
Virginia retired toward Norfolk Tut was
never in active service afterHari The iron.
work was purchased b. a northern gentle
man and aiierwarl sold 10 the Old Dominion
works 1t viii be converted into nails
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-18
MUST STAND THEIR TRIAL.



INDIANAPOLIS. Ind July IS-lt was dis
tnguishei and deeply concerned audience
that faced Judge Harlan, of the United States
supreme court, at noon Saturday. twas the
hour appointed for the decision of the peti-
ton for habeas corpus Instituted by Simeon
Coy in behalf OF himself and other alleged
election consplrators- To grant the petition
was understood TO mean not only TO release
the prisoner hut to break the force of the
prosecution To DENY the petition would be
equivalent to romandinC the prisoner to jail
and TO trial, or, IN a word, to hold the CON
sIdracy cases to he within the jurisdiction of
the federal court. tXmbers of the bar, in all
the -ratlations, we* There Ministers Of the
gospel. prominent and humble citizens from
all walks of HE crowded into the swetering
courtroom.
The decision was against the defendant, the
judge conciulins the opinion with the re-
mark, Il have no hesitation IN declaring that
the prisoner Is not entitled to his discharge
The defendants i'll these election cases. repre-
sentatives Of both parties, Will therefore have
TO prepare for trial
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-18

EVANSVILLE. Ind, July 1s.-At Union
City. Ky, on July 10, John Thomas, negro,
outraged the Il-vear daughter of his EN-
player Mr. John Turner The negro was ar
rested and his preliminary trial held Friday
" hen his victim identified him the crowd i'll
the court room became wild mob, and max
mg a rush ovelpov erred the officers aud hung
the wretch to . i'eam in the temple of jus
tee. refusing him chance to confess IN the
ground that he would only 90 to he'll with a
lie III hi, throat" There ATE doubts that ms
victim will recover
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-18
TORNADO AT WAUPACA, WIS.
A Novel Trick Played on a Church steepIe
TREAT Damage Done.

TREAT Damage Done.
WAUPACA, Wis, July lS-Ahout O'Clock
Saturday afternoon black cloud suddenly
doomed up from the west, turned the sun
shine into nearly darkness, and burst with
the force of full-fedged tornado. The heat
during the day had been intense, registering
from l02 degrees to 1915 degrees in the shade.
About O'Clock the wind came in fierce
gusts and shrveled the verdure like the
breath of simeon.
The tornado came m two sections-one
from the west, and tore trees Of eentury's
growth into spiinters, scattering nint,
trunks. and roots in all directions. When it
struck the city the rain was whirllng in tor
rents. Roofs We're torn off, steeples snapped,
sbade trees Frustrated, and ruin scattered
broadcast
The Curran house lost part of its roof and
the aged mother of the proprietor was nearly
drowned in her bed, st Marks Episcopal
church ana the skating rink stand side by
side. The steeple of the church was snapped
off, turned upside down and driven point
downward through the roof of the rink
Then the rink was moved from its founda-
tons and generally broken up. Immense
damage was done to timber, crops and build
ings, but 1t is impossible yet to estimate it.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-18

MARION, Ind, July 1S-Fairmont, ten
miles south of here is Quaker settlement
and its inhabitants have sworn that no saloon
shall ever exist there Ira J. Smith made ar
rangements to start one, the citizens held a
meeting and appointed a committee to see
that he didn't The fact that the committee
was in dead earnest was made manifest when
the town was startled Saturday morning by
a terrific explosion Everybody knew where
to run, and soon the whole village was col
lected about the ruins of the house Smith
had fitted up for a saloon; that house and the
next one to it were both total wrecks Dyna-
mite, Smith has disappeared.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-18

CHICAGO, July 1s-Saturday was the sec
oni and last day of the annual regatta of the
Mississippi Valley Amateur Rowing associa-
ton The senior four oars, IL miles, was
won by the Hilsiale, Mich, club in 9:46;
senior double SOULS, y miles, by the Della
wares of Chicago in 11:37; senior pair-oared
shells, X miles, by st. Louis Modocs in
1920; senior single SOULS, IL miles, by John
Corbett, of Chicago in LIES; six-oared barge
race, q mile, by st Louis Westerns in t:2o,
and single scull, 4 mile, by g. B. Jennison
in 800
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-18

LoGANsPoRr, Ind, July ln-The two
Greens. William and Amer, recently arrested
in Texas have arrived here and excitement Is
at fever heat There are SO many threats of
iynching that the sheriff has taken eXtraordI-
nary precautions and says he Will prevent any
of that kind of violence If, however, jury
should prescribe less than the death penalty
it will require strong force of determined
men to prevent a lynchng. Mr. Mabbltt,
father of the unfortunate Luella, says he
wants Amer TO have far trial, and ii found
guilty to be burned at the stake
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-18

for the reason that while 1t was shown that
he erected house on the land. and made
other improvements, he still retained his
farm, which be owned, and regarded his
entry as mere temporary abiding place and
not a home He intended to stay there just
long enough to secure title by colorado
compliance with the law The assistant
secretary thinks that this is not residence IN
der the homestead law, and that cultivation
and Improvement can not be accepted as the
equivalent of residence.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-18

table. Ned Smith, colored, came in as Whit
ten picked up a pair of saddlebags and took
out his revolver, which he pointed toward
the front gate and fired. A scream was
heard and both men rushed toward the front
gate Written caught his wife as she was
falling She had been shot in the side, and
died without uttering word She had been
TO the buggy and Written thought he would
fire off his pistol, not knowing she was there.
The unfortunate event has cast a heavy
gloom over the entire community.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-18

EBuTTsBuRG, Md, July lS.-The remains
of the child of William Clabaugh, which dis
appeared suddenly on July l, and for whom
search was made for several DAYS 10y scores of
men, have been found about two miles from
Clabaugh's house at secluded point among
the rocks in the mountain The body was at
one place and tue head at another Search
ing parties have been over the localities be
fore. The presence OF buzzards drew attea-
ton to the SPOT
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-18

ATHENS, Ga, July ls-R H Herring, a
farmer who lives three miles south OF here
killed his wife Friday The evidence shows
that Mrs. Herring was a woman of fine
physique, weighing 100 pounds, and was
known as good shot with rifle AMI gun
and woman of high temper The two had
a quarrel, and Mrs Herring rushed into the
house and got gun, and presented it full
cooked at her husband He seized the gun
and turned the muzzle at his wife, sending
SIX buckshot into her left breast She died
refusing to make a statement and Herring
story Is believed here
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-18

TEBRE HAUTE, Ind, July lS-The Terre
Haute car works, the largest manufacturing
establishment IN the city, were. with the eX-
ception of the foundry department, destroyed
by fire Sunday evening The origin of the
fire is unknown Mr. Seath, the president of
tue company. estimates the loss al Slc1, o0
The insurance Is between $4,000 and $50 $50,
Seven hundred and fifty men are thrown out
OF employment 1t is the intention Of the
company To rebuild at once
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-18

MILWAUKEE, Wis, July ls.-A Fon du Lac
special to The Seebote Milwaukee says fire
started in an old warehouse, in the lower part
of that town, and destroyed seven buildings,
including the Cotton street Methodist church.
Loss, so, 900; insurance, one-third- The fire
originated from the sparks Of a railroad err
gine
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-18
THE FOOL AND HIS PISTOL.
He Knew 1t Was Loaded But Managed to
Kill His Wife,

JACKSON, Tenn, July 1s.-News of de-
plorable shooting affair has just reached here
from McNairy county. Thursday night g.
s. Written respectable citizen, shot and
almost instantly killed his wife. He had been
to Bolivar and returned home about dark,
and left his buggy at the gnte and went in to
supper His vile finished eatlng ssi:l left the
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-18

New YORK, July 1s-While kiernan Bro
ply, an iron-worker, was assisting a cal
driver to protect himself against gang of
roughs in East Fourteenth street Saturday,
the men turned upon him, and, in defending
himself, he stabbed Hugh 0'CounT in the
neck, killing him almost instantly.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-18

In the American association st. Louis still
has such a lead as to make her almost certain
Of the first place Schedule St Louis. won
50. lost Is; Cincinnati. y, .; Baltimore. Al,
%. Louisville. s. n: Athletic, 81, 81 Brook
lyn, -, 81 Metropolitan, Is, IA Cleveland,
IS Is
The Northwestern league shows up as fol
lows: Milwaukee, won q. lost Is; st Paul.
81, IS. Dies Moines. 30. p. Oshkosh. >, -.
Minneapolis. q, "A: Duluth ,, y: La
Crosse, -. "a Eau Claire, 3, 5
Saturdays games In the National league
were as follows: At Philadelphia-Ph iIadel-
phia % Detroit +: at Washington City
Washington D. Pittshurg 3; at New York
New York I, Chicago 9; at Boston-BoSton g,
indianapolis l.
American association Saturday: At Louis
ville-Louisvlle .. Baltimore ); at St Louis
st. Louis 9. Athletics ?; at Cincinnati
Cincinnati . Brooklyn 6; at Cleveland
Cleveland 10 Metropolitans l. Sunday
at St. Louls-SJ. Louis 10, Athletics :. at
Louisville Louisyil 3, Baltimore ,: at Gin
clnnatI-Cnciunlh o, Brooklyn /
NorthU estern league Saturday: At Min
neaprlis-M Minneapolis Is, Eau Claire :: at
ST Psul-;St Fgll 10. Duluth T.. at Oshkosh
-Oshkcsh ), LaCrosse i Afternoon game
forfeited 70 Oshkoh after two innings, owing
to disabling OF LaCI -zse catchers. Sunday:
At St PaUl-St Paul q Duluth :
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-18

PARIS, July 1s.-Llntransigeant reports
that the police of Gross Gerau, a German
town in Hesse, near Darmstadt, have discov-
cred documents which disclose Socialist
plot to murder Emperor William on his jour
neyto Gastein. There is great excitement over
the alleged disclosure and many arrests have
boo, ,,,oda
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-18

BALTIMORE. Md, July 1S.-President Rob-
ert Garrett, Of the Baltimore * Ohio railroad,
has made up his mind that nothing shall stop
him from sai.ng for Europe from New York
on Saturday He will be accompanied by
Mrs Garrett
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-18

NEW DIRK, July lS-There wis a very
lively meeting Of District assembly No ~,
X of L., Sunday. The contest for supremacy
between the factions Of Master Workman
Quinn and his rival, Jim Dunno, was so bitter
that hand-to-hand struggle actually took
place for possession of the books.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-18
Recalling the Disappearance of Morgan.

CLINTON, Iowa, July 1S-Absalom Dennis,
of Dewitt, aged 81 years, a resident of the
county since 1881, was buried Saturday, He
drove the stage which carried Morgan, re
ported murdered by the Masons, from his
horne in New York, as he started for Canada
Dennis was not Mason then, but joined the
order afterward The deceased always said
that Masons furnished Morgan the means to
leave this country.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-18

TIFFIN. Ohio, July lS-The first gas well
put down by the city was abandoned Satur-
day at depth of l,750 feet, 2G3 feet in the
Trenton rock 1t is the dryest kind of hole.
The rig will be removed TO new location
and another attempt made.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-18

Lawn tents striped silk belts with new
designs IN snake buckles and new NIX
lures in Kaickerbocker leuHsins i,nsr ate
novelties.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-18

WASHINGTON CITY, July assistant
Secretary of the interior Muldrow has
directed that the entry by james Young, IN
the Salt Lake CITY land district, he canceIe1
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-18

WHKEsBARRE, Pa, July lS.-Alexander
Dwyer met terrible death Saturday at the
Morgantown mine, of the Susquehanna Coal
company, near Nantlcoke When ascending
the shaft the engineer in charge neglected TO
stop at the surface landing, and the carriage
went swiftly up to the top of the breaker,
about forty feet above ground, with such
force as to crush Dryers body into mangled
mass of flesh and bones. The man leaves a
wife and eight children When Mrs. Dwyer
heard the sad news OF the awful calamity she
fell over in fainting tit, striking her head
upon the sidewalk and cutting it terribly. 1t
is feared that she may not recover
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-18

Fashion DEGREES that the ladies' SILL
wear their beaded capes all summer
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-18

Amateur photography now RACES TO su
extent that is deemed remarkable.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-18

Knocked the Whole Congregation SenSelcss
LEBANON, Tenn, July 1S.-Thursday night
about dark lightning struck the stove pipe OF
tue Baptist chuch at Mount Olivet, nine miles
from here. OF 100 persons in the church
every one was knocked senseleSs, and one lady
was seriously injured They say the sensa-
ton was as if being struck in the head with a
bamuIar
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-18

The exodus to Europe will not be at
its height before the last OF July.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-18

novelties
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-19
QUARANTINE NOTICE.
OFFICE HEALTH OFFICER,

y
From and after MAY LIST, 1887, the city ordi.
nance which specifies the Quarantine require
ments to be observed at the port of Savannah,
Georgia, for period of time ANNUALLY from May
list TO November list, will be most rigidly ems
forced
Merchants and all otkar parties Interested
with be supplied with printed copies Of the Quar-
antine Ordinance upon application 10 Office OF
Health Oflcer.
From and after this date and until further no-
tice all steamships and vessels from South
America, Central America, Mexico, West Indies,,
Sicily, ports of Italy south of 40 dogs. NORTH
latitude and coast of Africa beweer1
10 dogs. North and II dogs. South latitude.
direct or via American port will be sub.
jected TO close Quarantine and be required
to report at the Quarantine Station and b
treated as being from infected or suspected
ports or localities. Captains Of these We sel0
will have to remain at Quarantils Station u III
their vessels are relieved.
All steamers and vessels from foreign ports
not included above, direct or via American
ports, whether seeking, chartered or otherwise,
will be required to remain in quarantine until
boarded and passed by the Quarantine Officer:
Neither the Captains nor any enc on board Of
such vessels toiI be dlloced TO come 10 the ctr
until The UesseLs are inspected and passed By -
Quarantine officer. NJ
As ports or localities not herein enumerated
are reported unhealthy to the Sanitary Authori-s
ties, Quarantine restrictions against same viii
be enforced without further publication
The quarantine regulation requiring the flying
Of the quarantine fog on gessets subjected "
detention or inspection t0iH be rigidiy eforced<
j. T. MCFARLAND, M. D., Health Officer. e
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-19

The Gardens of Egypt.


AT the beginning of March the gardens of
Egypt are really wonderful; the orange and
lemon trees spread their most pungent odor;
the rose trees are covered with inHumerable
flowers; the palms, with their green and
white crowns swing there in the wind; the
oleanders there border the avenues; on the
lawns, anemones, annual and perpetual flow
ering pinks, chrysanthemunls, violets, Zin-
Mas, periwinkles, snap-dragons, mignonette,
pansies and petunias blend their innumera-
BILE colors with the green of the trees, bushes
and shrubs. Groups of bamboo lift here
and there their long green or golden stems,
crowned with an immense plume of pretty
little trembling leaves. One comprehends
on seeing these stems, which assume in few
months enormous proportions, the cruelty
ingenious punishment of the Chinese i'll
binding q criminal TO young bamboo. The
plant grows and the wretch is quartered in
few weeks. No wood is lighter or more
useful than that of the bamboo One does
not understand why the Egyptians neglect
TO plant it along the canals and on every
cultivated land, where ii grows so well. But
what gives, at least during winter andspring,
the most smiling aspect to the Egyptian gar
dcns are the great sheets of rose bougain-
villeas that cling to the walls, the trees and
groups of foliage, and which display every
where the varied and exquisite tints of their
flowers. The bougainvilleas is certainly the
finest of climbing plants. During five
months it flowers under the winter sun,
take shades of extreme delicacy-one might
say a light rose trail, the intensity of which
every play of light varies The aloes, the
agave, attach Themselves on rocky slopes.
On the banks of the water courses the blue
lotus and the papyrus still revive antique
"reminiscences. Grass cannot be raised in
Egypt. The layer OF soil is so thin that the
sun dries il up Immediately, and unless the
grass be constantly submerged it turns yell
low and perishes at once. 1t \ not the heat
alone that produces this result, for there is
very much fine grass in the tropics; but the
heat, accompanied with the shallowness of
the soil, renders the culture of grass impos-
sible in Egypt II is with difficulty that a
few isolated blades Of grass sprout during
winter along the Nile and the canals; they
disappear as soon as spring begins, so that
everywhere in the country where artificial
cultivation finishes, the dry and bare desert
begins. In the place Of grass a pretty little
verbepacea is used, and this is encountered
everywhere, the Same as grass is encoun-
tered in America.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-19
SLAVES IN MEXICO.
Bondage in Which the Poems Are Held
by Fraudulent Masters.
Edgar Lee Vance in the Inter Mountain.

Edgar Lee Vance in the Inter Mountain.
A good deal has been told and written of
the cruelties in subterranean Siberia, but
vict chained in an underground gallery is
nearly as appalling as that of hundreds and
hundreds of the Mexican peon slaves toiling
within days journey of the land of the
free. | do not say that this is true of all
mines; at many of them, and particularly
those owned by American or English COM
panies, the management is humane and ad-
mirable in every particular, but it is true
of some. In these it is no unusual thing for
a peon to be murdered by some cruel task
master, in plain sight of his wife, who
works by his side, hears his dying shrek
and is powerless to raise her hand to save.
This is no fancy picture, but dreadful and
repeated reality.
. 1t is surprising how little of this is known,
but it is surprising how little is known in
general of interior Mexico. There are thou
sands of square miles where peonage is a
sacred institution and white man" is as
great curiosity as hippograff or unicorn
would be- There whole families are wearily
grinding away at debts they had no more to
do with than with the deluge.. Some ances-
tors they never saw or heard tell of, drank
too much mescai one day, or lost a few dol
lars at monte, or was tempted to buy a
gilded sombrero on credit, and the mischief
was done. That they live in the darkest
sort of ignorance and misery goes without
saying, else some fine morning they would
simply quit being poems and all the powers
that be, at least in Mexico, could not re-
establish the old regime
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-19
COTTON.
An Interesting Letter About the First
Shipment of 1t from This Country.

All interesting L0IV0r ABOUT Inc 4 ISt
Shipment of 1t from This Country.
Georgia was settled with three-fold OBJ
ject in view; first as place of refuge for
that worthy class of English people who
could find no field of action in their native
land; secondly, as barrier of free laborers
between the Spaniard of Florida and the
slave-holding colonies to the north, and
thirdly, to supply England with the silk
and wine derived from France and Spain.
The first design made her very soon house
of refuge from religious intolerance, the
second was impracticable in aciimate where
the white man could not clear
the forests and labor under the influence of
the summer sun, and the third failed from
several causes that exist to this day. But
the silk was soon supplied by a material
which afterward became so important in
commerce as. to give rise TO the saying
"cotton is king" The first proclamation of
the advent of this article is from Bethesda,
May Is, 1742, in a letter from James Haber-
sham, then President of the Bethesda Insti-
tuition, of which letter the following is a
copy, viz: ..'..--'.
"1o Gen. Oglethorpe, at Frederick:
II have desired Mr.. Hunter to send all the
cotton we have, if Mr.. Headly will take it in.
If not, he will send sample. We have but
little of this country growth, and shall leave
your excellency 10 put price upon III. buG
the West India, of which the sample is a
part, cost us chiefly I'D. sterling per pound
and cannot be afforded for less than Cd. per
pound. know it would fetch considerably
more in England, but trouble, risk and
charges would attend sending it there.
had rather dispose of it for less to your ex-
cellency. 1t has all been milled, is the same,
our weaver acquaints me, as is sold upon
London keys / have desired Mr.. Hunter,
likewise to send your excellency some wool,
skins and hides, which judge will be &C
ceptable at Frederick. cannot fix any
price on them, but must take what they are
worth at your market"
To this, Mr.. William Neyle Habersham,
who make this extract from original manu-
scripts, adds:
II cannot find the letter about the ship
ment of the twenty bales of cotton, all the
letters of 1852 to 1775 were destroyed by
Sherman, in Burke county, during the war,
but can take oath to the fact that he
loaded the ship here and sent twenty bales to
a Mr.. Dillon, his agent in New York,
where the ship went to finish her loading, as
all ships did in the earliest days of the colony,
and Dillon cleared the cotton for him in
New York. 1t was about 1755 or 1855"
R w H